Edward Anderson (Ed O.G.) Quotes
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
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My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.
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I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
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I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
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In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.
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I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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A revolution never will start among a bunch of bums.
